My partner and I have built our digital marketing agency as co-presidents. We both want to sit in the Integrator seat because we both love day-to-day operations and split the management of our team fifty-fifty. Can we put both of our names in the Integrator box, or will this break the EOS framework?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Sharing a seat is a guarantee that nothing will get done, or that it will be done with massive inefficiency. When two people are accountable for the same seat, nobody is actually accountable. When a metric slips or a ball is dropped, the natural human reaction is to point to the other person.

To scale your agency, you must adhere to the core EOS rule: only one name can sit in a seat on the Accountability Chart. Having co-presidents or co-integrators creates confusion for your leadership team, who will not know which of you to go to for decisions, leading to decision-by-committee or back-channel shopping.

You and your partner must sit down and have an honest conversation. One of you must own the Integrator seat, and the other must move to a different seat, perhaps the Visionary seat or a major department head seat, depending on who has the stronger GWC for each role.

The Integrator seat requires someone who loves day-to-day management, driving execution, and harmonizing the leadership team. Only one of you can have final accountability for these results. You can still collaborate, brainstorm, and work as partners, but when it comes to the Accountability Chart, a single name must own the seat.